Mists of Pandaria Legendary Quest Guide: Updated for 5.1

Mists of Pandaria has a unique legendary questline: it spans content patches and any class and spec can work on it. Multiple people in your raid can work on it at the same time, and it can even be completed in LFR. We've updated our guide to reflect the new 5.1 questline and weapon models.

Overview

A few things set this apart from past legendaries:

All level 90 players in a raid can work on the legendary questline at the same time.

Legendaries are for everyone. Players complete quests for legendary gems, which are then socketed into Sha-Touched weapons from raids. There are nine weapons classified as Sha-Touched, covering all possible specs.

With this system, guild are only limited by the number of Sha-Touched weapons they see each week.

Legendary gems can be placed into weapons from LFR. Quest items can also be looted in LFR.

This legendary series will span the expansion, with more elaborate rewards each tier.

5.1 Quest Series

As the first step takes at least 6 weeks to complete, the remaining quests have been pieced together from datamining. This step encourages you to participate in the new faction hubs, and even PvP a little.

A Test of Valor: Gain A Test of Valor by earning a total of 6000 Valor Points.Points earned retroactively will not count. This will take 6 weeks total to complete.

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Rogue Perks

If you are a Rogue who has completed or worked on Fangs of the Father, you get some fun flavor perks. Here are the Rogue-only dialogue options, from Whiterock's comment, when you initially speak to Wrathion:

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Comment by burningeagles

Sigil of Power can also drop from Terrace on lfr. I've had one drop from Tsulong for me on my DK

Comment by Elladaryn

on 2012-12-12T12:44:16-06:00

Sigil of Power can also drop from Terrace on lfr. I've had one drop from Tsulong for me on my DK

I can confirm this, got one in my mage.

Comment by perculia

on 2012-12-12T12:49:22-06:00

Thanks, updated.

Comment by Korosteam

on 2012-12-12T13:20:27-06:00

When you scroll down to 5.1 Quests Series and you click the Horde tab, for the quest "A Change in Command" you said that you have to kill High Marshall Twinbraid at Domination Point, that should be changed to Lion's Landing. It would only make sense if a horde toon would have to kill an alliance npc inside an alliance pub. ;)

Comment by Anderzrez

on 2012-12-12T15:42:39-06:00

This cannot be completed on the PTR at the moment. It sucks :(

Comment by BosephHeyden

on 2012-12-12T15:43:11-06:00

Test of Valor is a joke. It's like Blizzard said to themselves "Way too many people are finishing heroic dungeons and getting exalted to render dailies useless. We need to keep this going, but adding new content sounds like way too much of a hassle. Hey, let's make people redo all that stuff under the guise that it is for a legendary gem they'll probably never see!" I say "probably never see" because, on top of grinding out stuff most people this far in won't need, there's also the matter of killing the Krasang Wilds leader, which, when we killed him on my server back at the start of this patch, required a 25 man raiding party that required a two tank, five healer setup to survive an NPC that drops absolutely zero loot, meaning that, unless you are at that point of your quest, you have no reason to want to kill him.

Comment by karatechop

on 2012-12-12T16:59:35-06:00

Test of Valor is a joke. It's like Blizzard said to themselves "Way too many people are finishing heroic dungeons and getting exalted to render dailies useless. We need to keep this going, but adding new content sounds like way too much of a hassle. Hey, let's make people redo all that stuff under the guise that it is for a legendary gem they'll probably never see!" I say "probably never see" because, on top of grinding out stuff most people this far in won't need, there's also the matter of killing the Krasang Wilds leader, which, when we killed him on my server back at the start of this patch, required a 25 man raiding party that required a two tank, five healer setup to survive an NPC that drops absolutely zero loot, meaning that, unless you are at that point of your quest, you have no reason to want to kill him.

find a better group? lol

i did it with a few friends (8 of us in total) 1 tank 2 heals.took about 5 mins to kill him, most are 370~ geared.

Comment by CalaelenDT

on 2012-12-12T17:02:31-06:00

Going to assume that's 470 iLevel, otherwise you found yourself a very impressive group. ;)

Comment by Mort1982

on 2012-12-12T18:46:18-06:00

My main question is will the final "legendary weapon" be different (in stats and visual appearance) if you start with the lesser weapons from Raid finder or normal mode or should I hold out for the heroic version of the weapon before applying the Crystallized Dread and Eye of the Black Prince to a lesser Normal or Raid Finder version?

Comment by BosephHeyden

on 2012-12-12T19:10:11-06:00

My main question is will the final "legendary weapon" be different (in stats and visual appearance) if you start with the lesser weapons from Raid finder or normal mode or should I hold out for the heroic version of the weapon before applying the Crystallized Dread and Eye of the Black Prince to a lesser Normal or Raid Finder version?

It will most certainly be different. If you have the ability and/or means to run heroic Terrace of Spring, wait it out, because the upgraded weapon will just take whatever your weapon's current iLevel is and boost it by x amount of levels. They're not going to give people who stick solely to LFR the same level of gear as someone who does regular raids or, for that matter, heroics.

As far as visually, well, Blizzard doesn't even know that yet.

Comment by no0ob

on 2012-12-13T08:00:44-06:00

Still waiting on my 10 Sigils of Power and 10 Sigils of Wisdom to be completed in LFR, gosh either he drop rate sucks in LFR or its just that so many people want it it gets divided :/.

Comment by snipervictim

on 2012-12-13T09:22:31-06:00

hi all here to tell you valor dosnt work atm i have 300 valor point i earned and my counter still sayd 0 i hope this is fixed otherwise there will alot of mad people not to mention a waste of time or maybe thats the point to keep me paying for just a little longer .

Comment by Steamhammer

on 2012-12-13T11:12:44-06:00

Bolding mine:

These weapons only drop from Heart of Fear and Terrace of Endless Spring. Each difficulty tier has a unique color and they can all be transmogged. In addition, using a Shadow with Jin'ya, Orb of the Waterspeaker or Kri'tak, Imperial Scepter of the Swarm will give you a cute Sha-Fiend instead! In addition, they increase your speed by 10% while in Dread Wastes, with Swarmkeeper's Speed, just like Kri'tak, Imperial Scepter of the Swarm.

Comment by perculia

Will clarify the sentence, I meant that Jinya and Kritak both give you a Sha-Fiend and increase your runspeed. I can see how it seemed like all weapons were described as such.

Comment by ArcaneEther

on 2012-12-14T23:41:45-06:00

- You need to get to Honored with The Black Prince.- - You must have in your log to get reputation from kills.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Not so.

As long as Wrathion's intro quest, , has been turned in, and is available, you can earn reputation from kills. You don't actually need the quest in your log, you just have to have it unlocked.

Comment by shaggzz

on 2012-12-16T17:33:35-06:00

if you bring up the acheiv for completing this quest you can see the valor points are tracked there.

Comment by spawnie7

on 2012-12-18T07:07:53-06:00

Lol legendaries for every one. Glad I quit the game

Comment by OurPrisonPlanet

on 2012-12-18T10:21:45-06:00

Lol legendaries for every one. Glad I quit the game

Um... For everyone that actually works to complete the quest... I'd rather that than running something 100 times to have that one person that was pulled in last minute into the group lucking out with a roll... I'm rather fond of working and being rewarded for achieving a goal... Perhaps the world should just run on "Powerball" mentality then?

Comment by groovz

on 2012-12-18T12:29:33-06:00

It will most likely take you 7 weeks to complete a Test of Valor.

If you don't Pickup the quest at exactly 0/1000 Valor collected for the week you will only be at somewhere around 5010 - 5990 on the 6th week.

the last 10 - 990 will be collected in the 7th week,

For me When I got this quest I had 330/1000 Valor and so after Week 1 I'm actually at 670/6000 Valor meaning 5 weeks of 5000 valor points puts me at 5670 and week 7 puts me at 6000.